Sunday, 9 February 2014

My Weekly Book Haul: 09/02/2014

Friday Finds is something that was started over on ShouldBeReading and Stacking the Shelves over at TyngaReviews, I am in love with all of these as I love finding other blogs to follow and books to read through these! So check them all out and see what you find, Stacking the Shelves has a lot of participants as well which is great. This is basically a way for me to show what books I have received, borrowed or bought each week. All book covers and their summary come from back of book or Goodreads.

Two years ago, the aliens made contact. Now Cara Sweeney is going to be sharing a bathroom with one of them.

Handpicked to host the first-ever L’eihr exchange student, Cara thinks her future is set. Not only does she get a free ride to her dream college, she’ll have inside information about the mysterious L’eihrs that every journalist would kill for. Cara’s blog following is about to skyrocket.

Still, Cara isn’t sure what to think when she meets Aelyx. Humans and L’eihrs have nearly identical DNA, but cold, infuriatingly brilliant Aelyx couldn’t seem more alien. She’s certain about one thing, though: no human boy is this good-looking.

But when Cara's classmates get swept up by anti-L'eihr paranoia, Midtown High School suddenly isn't safe anymore. Threatening notes appear in Cara's locker, and a police officer has to escort her and Aelyx to class.

Cara finds support in the last person she expected. She realizes that Aelyx isn’t just her only friend; she's fallen hard for him. But Aelyx has been hiding the truth about the purpose of his exchange, and its potentially deadly consequences. Soon Cara will be in for the fight of her life—not just for herself and the boy she loves, but for the future of her planet.

I read this as an ARC last year and absolutely loved it. I had to pre-order myself the finished hardback and I am so happy that it has finally arrived. I'm glad to finally have it on my bookshelf.

They say that the cure for love will make me happy and safe forever. And I've always believed them. Until now. Now everything has changed. Now, I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years suffocated by a lie. There was a time when love was the most important thing in the world. People would go to the end of the earth to find it. They would tell lies for it. Even kill for it. Then, at last, they found the cure.

I own these in hardback but still haven't read them. I saw the paperbacks on a deal, 3 for £5, and had to buy them. Maybe this will finally convince me to start them!

The year was 2014. We had cured cancer. We had beat the common cold. But in doing so we created something new, something terrible that no one could stop. The infection spread, virus blocks taking over bodies and minds with one, unstoppable command: FEED. NOW, twenty years after the Rising, Georgia and Shaun Mason are on the trail of the biggest story of their lives-the dark conspiracy behind the infected. The truth will out, even if it kills them.

A decade in the future, humanity thrives in the absence of sickness and disease.

We owe our good health to a humble parasite - a genetically engineered tapeworm developed by the pioneering SymboGen Corporation. When implanted, the tapeworm protects us from illness, boosts our immune system - even secretes designer drugs. It's been successful beyond the scientists' wildest dreams. Now, years on, almost every human being has a SymboGen tapeworm living within them.

But these parasites are getting restless. They want their own lives...and will do anything to get them.

The Road meets 28 Days Later in this heart-stopping, page-turning saga of rage, hope and survival.

Moments after several huge earthquakes shake every continent on Earth, something strange starts happening to people. Michael can only watch in horror as an incidence of road rage so extreme it ends in two deaths unfolds before his eyes; Clementine finds herself being hunted through the small town she has lived in all her life, by people she has known since childhood; and Mason is attacked with a baseball bat by a random stranger. An inner rage has been released and some people cannot fight it. For those who can, life becomes an ongoing battle to survive - at any cost!

It's a once-in-a-lifetime thing: a girl on a yacht with her super-rich banker father; a chance for the family to heal after a turbulent time; the peaceful sea, the warm sun . . . But a nightmare is about to explode as a group of Somali pirates seizes the boat and its human cargo - and the family becomes a commodity in a highly sophisticated transaction. Hostage 1 is Dad - the most valuable. Amy is Hostage 3. As she builds a strange bond with one of her captors, it becomes brutally clear that the price of a life and its value are very different things . . .

Twenty years ago, the robots designed to fight our wars abandoned the battlefields. Then they turned their weapons on us.

Nick, Kevin, and Cass have spent their whole lives in a community in the wilderness, hiding out from the robots that have enslaved mankind. But when the bots discover their location, they barely make it out alive — only to discover that their home has been destroyed and everyone killed or captured. Now, the siblings must risk everything to save the only people they have left in the world.

When East Coast native Elizabeth receives her freshman-year roommate assignment, she shoots off an e-mail to coordinate the basics: television, microwave, mini-fridge. That first note to San Franciscan Lauren sparks a series of e-mails that alters the landscape of each girl's summer -- and raises questions about how two girls who are so different will ever share a dorm room.

As the countdown to college begins, life at home becomes increasingly complex. With family relationships and childhood friendships strained by change, it suddenly seems that the only people Elizabeth and Lauren can rely on are the complicated new boys in their lives . . . and each other. Even though they've never met.

National Book Award finalist Sara Zarr and acclaimed author Tara Altebrando join forces for a novel about growing up, leaving home, and getting that one fateful e-mail that assigns your college roommate.

Cassidy Haines remembers her first kiss vividly. It was on the old covered bridge the summer before her freshman year with her boyfriend of three years, Ethan Keys. But her last kiss—the one she shared with someone at her seventeenth birthday party the night she died—is a blur. Cassidy is trapped in the living world, not only mourning the loss of her human body, but left with the grim suspicion that her untimely death wasn’t a suicide as everyone assumes. She can’t remember anything from the weeks leading up to her birthday and she’s worried that she may have betrayed her boyfriend.

If Cassidy is to uncover the truth about that fateful night and make amends with the only boy she’ll ever love, she must face her past and all the decisions she made—good and bad—that led to her last kiss.

Danger seldom leaves its victims unscathed in the ways of seduction, and this lesson is one that sixteen-year-old Cassie Foster now knows all too well.

Nine months following the traumatic accident that claimed the life of her mother and sister, this high school junior has at last found a fresh start in the quiet town of New Haven, Maine. In the company of her best friends, Ian and Gwen, she’s bracing the usual turmoil of adolescence and taking all in stride… until the new transfer student, Jackson Matthews, comes walking into her life. He’s arrogant, sarcastic, roguish, devastatingly sexy, and the very last thing Cassie wants to entertain. But when circumstances drive these two together, she finds herself a bit too close for comfort as their bond intensifies. Plagued by unexplainable events, a sudden string of disappearances, and even a cult-related murder, Cassie begins to fear for her life. Is it all just a coincidence that these happenings began when this Casanova strolled into town, or has she in fact fallen for a real lady-killer, or worse?

James is skilled, efficient, and deadly, a hired blade navigating the shifting alliances of a deteriorating Assassin’s Guild. Then he meets Thalia, an alluring but troubled dancing girl who offers him a way out—if he’ll help her kill a powerful nobleman. With the Guild falling apart, it just might be worth the risk. But when you live, breathe, and love in a world that’s forever flirting with death, the slightest misstep can be poison.

Nice haul! Alienated sounds great, and I'm going to have to add it to my TBR list now. I really enjoyed Delirium, but I wasn't as big a fan of the other books in the series. It'll be interesting to see what you think. I hope you enjoy your books, and thanks for stopping by! :)

This is like SUCH an awesome haul. I've seen Mira Grant's books around, but haven't really read any reviews. (I hope you review them! I'm really interested.) And I've heard Roomies is really fun. Poison Dance was okay...buuuut, it's so short. I mean, well, duh to me, it IS a prequel novella thingie. I hope you like it! I'm pretty keen for Midnight Thief now! :)

I said yes to Poison Dance because I loved the excerpt the author sent me, but I know it'll probably feel too short for me too... even though I know it's a novella. I am excited to try Mira Grant, I've seen some great reviews :)

YAY for Alienated! I loved that one! And I read and reviewed Poison Dance a few months ago - I really liked it! I was the first reader and reviewer, which makes me happy ^_^ I hope you read and love all of your new books!

I really, really want to get my hands on Alienated! It sounds so good, Great haul, it looks like quite a pile to read! I've been thinking about reading the Delirium series for a while now so I look forward to hearing your thoughts on them! Thanks for stopping by my post! :)

OOOH!! Alienated :) I really want to read that one, and the cover is gorgeous!! I hope you enjoy Delirium! It's one of my favorite series and the first book will always be one of my favorite books ever! Those covers are beautiful, I wish the US covers were as gorgeous! AND MY LAST KISS!! Wooo that's amazing, can't wait to see your review on that one! I hope you enjoy all your books, Happy Reading :D

Alienated! I cancelled my order because I don't know if it's for me. I'll probably end up buying it by the end of the year though. I haven't read the Delirium series yet, hope you enjoy them! Thanks for stopping by mine earlier. :)

Gaaah, I'm like the only person alive who hasn't read the Delirium trilogy by Lauren Oliver yet! I so need to get on that. Same with Mira Grant's series! And eep I'm so excited for My Last Kiss. :) Enjoy all your books this week!

Great Haul this week! I didn't realize that Lauren Oliver books came in those covers then I realized you in the UK so they are the UK covers! They look great! Thanks for stopping by my STS this week! =)

The Feed Series looks really good! ☺ I've been loving the zombie theme ever since I began watching The Walking Dead! Glad that it opened my eyes to the genre. I've never seen those covers for Delirium before! They're cute! ☺

You got an awesome haul this week! I also got my pre-order for Alienated. It's so pretty. I really like Dark Inside and the sequel. But just a word of warning there is no date set for the last book. And it's been a few years since the sequel came out. So if you don't mind waiting, than I think you'll enjoy it. Happy reading! :)

So many great books! I loved Delirium and Pandemonium so definitely read those! Requiem was a bit disappointing, but there have been other series enders that were absolutely horrible so comparatively...not that bad. I've picked up Revolution 19 a couple of times but just haven't bought it so I'll be curious to see what you think about it. Have fun reading! ~Pam

I have Poison Dance too, and I'm going to read it soon! I've heard the Mira Grant books are really good, but I haven't read them yet. Must read soon! I just finished Alienated, and it sounds like you loved it more than I did, but it was a fun read, I'll admit. Thanks so much for checking out my STS!

EEEEE! I LOVE THE DELIRIUM BOOKS!! And I love those covers! So different from the US ones. :) And yay for Poison Dance! It's so good, and Livia is just so nice. Of course, it's only going to make you want Midnight Thief desperately, which isn't out until Julyyyy.

My Last Kiss sounds really cool! I'm excited to read it. I've only read Delirium, but I really want to finish the rest of the series sometime soon. I'm kind of nervous about Requiem, though. I hope you enjoy all of your books :)

Great selection! It's the first time I've heard of most of them. I read the Delirium series, one of my faves, except that I was disappointed with the last book. I just saw Revolution 19 at the bookstore and I think it's something I would like. :D

what a great stack of books!! and i can't believe you got Lauren Oliver's book for so cheap. I've only read the first one so far. And Alienated MEEP so jelly lol I hope you enjoy all your books and thanks for taking the time to stop by my STS. :D

My Last Kiss sounds really interesting. I enjoyed Roomies, but it wasn't quite as cute as I was expecting. I've been meaning to read Delirium for forever. Great haul this week! I hope you love them all!

Dark Inside is a crazy ride!! I loved it!!!!! Although I think the series is stalled out for book 3 which completely sucks and really makes me mad! I hope you enjoy the Delirium series! Lauren Oliver is a brilliant author!! I just finished Alienated and LOVED it!! I hope you enjoy all your pretty new books!! Thanks for stopping by Pivot Book Reviews!! :)

I'd heard that about Dark Inside, which really does suck as I am not a patient person! So I will definitely need to wait for the third one to release before I start then. I loved Alienated too, that book was awesome! :)

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